The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-10
The Gang Procure the Perjured State
ment for Political Purposes.
James Dawson, Hack-D Driver, Also Swears
that He Was offered Money if He Would
Sign Similar Affidavit-Political Notes.

| bring Mayor Denny into dsrepute with the peo-
| pie. 1t is a covert attack on his character, for
| which there is not the shadow of truth to war
rant its use. even if that method of political
warfare were justifabe. DR.. Edenharter had not
the maliness to make the charge direct in his
| Saturday nights speech but he Endorsed the
| calumny and made himself a party to it's circu-
| lation by saying. II am charged with visiting
| saloons and if do I go into the front door and
! come out the same way, not caring who
| sees ME. But have not called for hack to
| come to a saloon and take me home at o'clock
| In the morning" The meaning of this vile refer
| ence was that Mayor Denny had done so. Not
content with assailing his character in this way,
| the gang agents cowardly and criminally made
| one John Green drunk, and taking him to a cer-
| tain place at o'clock in the morning under
threats compelled him to sign an affidavit to the
| effect that the Mayor was driven home from the
saloon as charged This villanous production
| was prepared for publication in one of the Dem
ocratic organs. and is to be distributed through
out the city to day in circular form In his Sat-
urday nights speech DR.. Edenharter practically
| gave this outrageous and lying attack upon the
character of his competitor his appreciation.
Last evening the John Green referred to vol
! UNFAIRLY called at the residence of Mayor Denny.
| and exposed the whole plan the gang had
ranged to attack the Mayors character just on
the eve of the election, when there would be no
time left in which to counterfeit it with the
truth. In this case the truth would be denial
emphatic outraged honor and decency
could make it. Green without solicitation on
the part Of the Mayor, said he was anxious to
atone for the wrong he had done him by making
an affidavit which would stamp the one made
while drunk and under threats from tho desper.
ate agents of Coy and Edenharter as villainous
lie. The facts concerning this desperate attempt
to destroy the character of against whom
the Liquor League and Coy doing their
worst in trying to defeat him are given in the
STATE OF INDIANA,
MARION COUNTY, 3D.
Before me, Horace E. Smith, notary public in and
for said county, personally appeared John Green.
this 9th day of October, 1887 and who, being duly
sworn. on his oath says:
II am ffty-three years of age and reside at
the northeast corner of Illinois and Ohio
streets, IN the city of Indianapolis, in the
building occupied by G. Monninger as a sa-
loon and billiard hall. On Friday, Oct. z,
1887. about midnight, young man, giving
his name as Baker, and representing himself
to be United States detective, together with
two other men unknown to me, came to said
Monninger's saloon in hack, and asked me
to go with them, which l did. They took
me to several saloons in the city where I
drank both beer and whisky several times,
they joining me part of the time. During
the time they were driving me around, and
after had become considerably intoxicated,
so much so that ] had fallen asleep in the
hack, they stopped at some place which
cannot now locate, and induced me to sign
and swear to certain statement, which am
now informed is to the effect that Caleb s.
Denny Mayor of Indianapolis, had recently
been taken from said Monninger's saloon after
midnight, to his home in a hack, drunk. can
not state from nv own information, the con-
tents of the paper signed andssworn to by me,
for the reason that it was not read over to me
by any one. The man Baker told me that
must sign the paper which had been prepared,
and when I stepped back, refusing to do so,
he took me by the arm and threatened to ar
rest me or have me arrested if l did not do
SO. 1 then signed the paper and swore to it,
before some one representing himself as an
officer, whom have since understood is John
l.. +. Steeg, notary public. L signed and
swore to said paper under fear that l would
be arrested or receive bodily harm at the
hands Of the men in the room if did not do
SO. I now say on my oath that never saw
said Caleb S. Denny in said Monningers
loon at any time, nor In any other saloon.
That never said Denny intoxicated at
any time. That l never saw said Denny
drink any intoxicating liquors at any time.
That never saw said Denny get into nor put
into hack at any time, and that / never to
my recollection, saw said Denny at any place
in the city of Indianapolis after midnight.
And I further swear that I never told said
Baker, or said notary, either of said other
persons, that ever had seen said Denny in
toxicated or in any saloon, or put into hack
at any time. further swear that I was re-
turned to said building, at the corner Of Hi
nois and Ohio streets, by said Baker and two
other persons about daylight Saturday
morning
"And I now swear that have this Sunday
evening voluntarily come to the house of said
Caleb S. Denny, and after having stated to
him the substance of the foregoing state
ments voluntarily come before Horace E.
Smith, notary public, and caused him to
write and read over to me the foregoing state
ment of facts before signing the same, so
help me God. JOHN GREEN
of October 1887. HORACE E. SMITH,
When their pefarious plot was discovered che
gang started the cry that Mayor Denny and his
friends in tracing the calumny to its responsible
source were on the track of the wrong John
Green. It is true that the Mayor was looking
for another Green. but when he returned homo
last evening he found the right one there waiting
for him The affidavit he makes is too explicit
not to place beyond doubt that the Green who
exposes the plot is the man who was made drunk
by the gang heelers and compelled to swear to
the malicious lie
James DAWSON, tue noChudus CouPiot0S ITO
| exposure of the villain Gus plot by making the
| following affidavit:
STATE OF INDIANA. Ice
MARION COUNTY, o.
James Dawson, of lawful age, being duly
| sworn, upon his oath says That he is twenty
| nine wears old, resides in the city of Indian
apolis and is the driver of hack No. 81. That
| on Saturday evening, Oct. 8, about O'Clock,
one Charles Miller, who is connected with the
indianapolis Sentinel came to him at his
hack stand in front of the Bates House, and
stated to him that he had in his posses
| sion an affidavit made by one John Green, to
the effect that Caleb S. Denny, Mayor of In
danapolis, had recently been hauled from
Monninger's saloon, on North Illinois street.
after midnight, drunk, and that he could
make stake by making affidavit that he